ABIGAIL C. BRETZIN, PHD, ATC

Sport-related concussions (SRC) are common in athletes.2 Likely due to the world-wide participation, soccer is one of the leading sports in which athletes experience SRC; and for females in particular, soccer often has the highest SRC incidence.2-4 Therefore soccer’s high SRC incidence, and the large number of participating athletes, warrants continued study into the sport-specific underlying causes of injury to help direct interventions for prevention.5 Our article leveraged a large state-wide surveillance system lead by a public school athletic system in the USA (Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA)) to study the clinical incidence of SRC and the causes of injury in high school soccer occurring across a state in the midwestern region of the United States. Further, in this study of over 80,000 high school-aged soccer athletes, we compared the clinical incidence of SRC and head injury causes between males and females.